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The annals ; & The histories / Tacitus ; introduction by Shelby Foote ; translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb ; edited by Moses Hadas ; notes by James Danly.
Van Pelt Library DG207.T2 C4513 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tacitus, Cornelius
- Standardized Title:
- Works. English. 2003
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Rome--History--Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D.
- Rome.
- Rome--History--Flavians, 69-96.
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 596 pages ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Annals ; & The histories
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Modern Library, 2003.
- Summary:
- Cornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. "The Annals commence in a.d. 14, at the death of Augustus, recounting the reigns of Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Claudius, and Nero, and conclude in a.d. 68, the year of Nero's suicide." The Histories document the tumultuous year a.d. 69, when Emperors Galba, Otho, and Vitellius all perished in quick succession, ushering in Vespasian's ten-year reign. According to historian Will Durant, "We must rank Tacitus among the greatest. . . . The portraits he draws stand out more clearly, stride the stage more livingly than any others in historical literature." This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes newly commissioned endnotes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contains:
- Tacitus, Cornelius. Historiae. English
- Histories.
- ISBN:
- 0812966996
- OCLC:
- 51059409
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